Google Paid Him $986,000 in a Single Year. Here’s Why He Still Left: ‘Life-Changing Money’
Nearly $1 million in pay wasn’t enough to keep this former Google employee at the company.
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
July 2026
‘Real American Cowboys’ Star Steven McBee Jr. Beat the Beef Bottleneck Washington Is Now Spending $500 Million to Fix
Most ranchers lose control the day their cattle leave the farm. Steven McBee Jr. built a business where nothing leaves without his family’s name on it.
Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected
X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.
Inspired By His Dad’s 1990s eBay Business, He’s Flipping Products Into Millions of Dollars a Year: ‘I Was Hooked On Selling’
Nick Bruni always liked the idea of being his own boss.
AI Is Absorbing Your Brand’s Original Ideas. Here’s How to Keep Your Name Attached.
In the AI era, original thinking gets absorbed into the knowledge base fast — but attribution often doesn’t come along for the ride. I know because it happened to me.
Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool
The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.
Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]
Is Your ‘Eco-friendly’ Paper Bag Actually Sustainable? No — and Here’s the Math to Prove It.
Is paper sustainable? A deep dive into lifecycle data reveals paper bags may be worse for the climate than plastic.
You Can’t Scale a People-Based Business by Burning Through People. Here’s a Better Strategy
As market pressures drive companies to achieve growth at all costs, frontline teams are feeling the consequences. Here’s how leaders can scale without compromising their workforce.
Why Entrepreneurs Who Master the Art of the Value Chain Have a Greater Advantage
Here’s why understanding the nuances of the value chain is one of the most underappreciated entrepreneurial skills.